Overheard in the tech blogosphere

Feb 1 2008   1:12PM GMT

Overheard: Amazon cloud services



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology, Cloud computing, Amazon
jack_schofield.jpg One of the Highlights in the [Q4] earnings statement picked up by the geek press was about Amazon’s online data and storage services:

Adoption of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to grow. As an indicator of adoption, bandwidth utilized by these services in fourth quarter 2007 was even greater than bandwidth utilized in the same period by all of Amazon.com’s global websites combined.

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Thanks to Dennis Shiao for the cloud watch tip. It’s interesting that Amazon is using bandwidth as the success metric.

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